Third ‘Progress’ spacecraft to go to the International Space Station
08:51, 30 June 2010
MOSCOW. June 30. KAZINFORM A third Russian spacecraft will lift off to the International Space Station (ISS) from Baikonur on Wednesday, Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
A source at Roskosmos, the Federal Space Agency, told Itar-Tass that 'Progress M-06M' would be launched at 19:35 Moscow time.
The spacecraft will deliver about 2.5 tons of various cargoes to the ISS, including fuel and special equipment for the station, oxygen, water, clothes and food for the astronauts as well as gifts and parcels from their relatives.
This time psychologists have sent five DVDs with feature films and video journals on fishing, fresh copies of magazines and reproductions of the pictures of Russian landscape painters for interior decoration to the ISS, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com